Tip for: 12.07.15
Do you want to include online resources in your catalog? It’s easy!
Why would you catalog links?
After all, you could just create an Explore pane or Bulletin Board for recipes, an Explore pane (or Bulletin Board) for Free eBooks, an Explore pane (ditto) for National Geographic videos, and so on.
However, adding the link as an item in your catalog (with subjects!) means it will come up in Researcher search results.
Often you can link to the web page that then leads to text content or a PDF; other times you can directly link to or download a PDF. To ensure the ongoing integrity of your catalog links, you may want to download the PDFs and host them on your own server, and link to them from there. Note any updates to the original files will not be reflected in the PDFs you downloaded.
First, before you add items, you need an appropriate policy so no one tries to place a hold on or check out a link.
*This will put an ONLINE tag on the cover art in Researcher
To catalog a link:
To add subject tags:
Now your patrons can find this resources when they search your catalog.